While in Georgia for Family Day weekend, we stopped to visit The National Infantry Museum. This was a fascinating museum that honors America’s infantry by way of exhibits, combat simulators, re-creations, and even an IMAX theater!
My husband and youngest daughter took part in a combat simulation, and I was allowed inside to sit inside the mounted HMMWV and watch, front row, as they stood on the back of the vehicle with guns at the ready to penetrate the rebel territory in an effort to rescue the humanitarian aid workers.
It was all so very exciting and life-like, it felt as if we were really riding in a HMMWV going up and down the terrains and around buildings, dodging bullets and bombs as we rode along. There were a couple of times I had to look away from the scene in front of us because scenery was so intense and movement of the vehicle so real!
These aren’t very good pictures, and I failed to get any of the two of them standing on the back of the HMMWV, but they were awesome!!!
There were other exciting discoveries in the museum, like this Harley Davidson.
As you can see from the photos, the U.S. Army has used Harley Davidson motorcycles since World War I, another fascinating tid-bit I learned. =)
Here’s a few other pictures we took, one of a helicopter suspended from the ceiling that looked really neat!
The other two are of our youngest grandson who is trying on a military cap and playing in this tiny room they have set-up for the little ones to come in and try on the gear that the soldiers wear, and in the room they have little binoculars set-up in the walls for the kids to look through to see different pictures of places and animals. It was pretty neat.
I also captured a shot of the Soldier’s Creed:
And the Infantryman:
We had a wonderful time at The National Infantry Museum in Fort Benning, Georgia! =)
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